Eyeglass-holder.



M. N. THOMPSON. EYEGLASS HOLDER. APPLIGATION FILED FEB.9,1910

96%,,065 Patented June 21,1910.

MAR-Y NOMA THOMPSON, OF ROCK'V'ILLE, MARYLAND.

EYEGLASS- HOLDER.

Application filed February 9.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be itknown that I, MARY Nona Tnonrl sox, a citizen of the United States, residing l at ltockville, in the county of Montgo'meiy and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful ll111 )1'0\'01]l011t5 in Eycglass-Holders; and I do hereby declare the 3' following to be a full, clear, and exact dc scription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itl appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to eye-glass holders and has for its object'to produce an article of this nature which will be inexpensive to 1 manufacture, eflicient in use and one which will leave no projecting points on which articles of clothing are liable to catch when l the holder is in use. i l

\Vith these objects in. View the invention l consists in the novel details of construction I and arrangement of parts more fully hereinafter disclosed and particularly pointed! out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which like numerals refer to like parts in all the l views:-l igurc l, is a view illustrating the I use of my invention; Fig. 2, is a perspective view showing one form of the invention; It

Fig. 3, is a plan view of the form vshown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, is a. view on a smaller scale,

showing a slightly modified form of theinvention; Fig. 5, is a plan view showing a still further modified form of the invention; and, Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing the hook which is used in all the forms of the invention.

1 represents any suitable pointed pin adapted to enter the clothing, which is bent at 2 to form the front bar 3, which is bent at 4 upwardly to form the portion 5, is bent again at (3 back upon itself to form the portion 7, is bent at 8 preferably slightly upwardly to form the portion 9 overlying the front bar 3, is bent at 10 downwardly and upwardly at 11 to form a. loop to hold the eye-glass, and is finally bent at 12 parallel to the front bar 3 to form the portion 13 which is flattened or curved at its end 14,. to readily permit. the. nose-piece of the eye glasses to enter said loop. The bent portions 5, (3, and 7, constitute the hook under which the pointed end of the nosepiece looks when the holder is in use.

In the form shown in Fig. 4 the bond 8 is. not upward as in Figs. 2 and 3 and the bar 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

1910. SerialNo. 542.945.

9 is not rested upon the front bar 3, but is in the same horizontal plane with said front bar, as illustrated.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, the front bar 3 is provided with an outwardly curved p01- tion 15 near the extremity of the piece 13 and the extreme end of said piece 13 is bent I back upon itself, as at 16, in order to more ctlcctually round off its point.

In all the forms the extreme end of the piece .13 is rounded to form an entering space 17 for the nose-piece of the eye-glasses and the said extreme end is also located in the same horizontal plane as are the pieces Patented June 21. 1910.

3 and 13 in order to prevent clothing from catching thereon. In Fig. 5 the projection 15 acts as a guard to shield the extreme end -'6 from being caught in the clothing. In all the forms it will also be observed that the entire holder is made from a single piece of spring wire, and therefore, is very 1nexpensive to construct.

The loop formed by the bend'll is preferably located in the plane perpendicular to the front bar 3, but this is not essential.

It is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary the details of construction and the arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of my invention, and, therefor e ,l do not wish to be limited to such fcatiires except as may be required by the claims.

What I claim is 1. An eye-glass holder composed of a single piece of wire provided with a pin; a hook under which said pin fits; a front bar portion; a loop to hold the eye-glasses extending in a plane at right angles to the plane containing said pin and front bar portion; and a further portion of said Wire cxtcnding at right angles to said loop and parallel to said front bar portion, adapted to close said loop, substantially as described.

2. .\n eye-glass holder composed of a single piece of wire provided with a pin; a hook under which said pin fits; a front bar port ion; a portion extending from said hook and passing along said front bar portion and then at an angle thereto to form a loop to hold the eve-glasses extending in a plane at right anglcs to the plane containing said pin and front bar portion; and a further portion of said wire extending at right angles to said loop and parallel to said front ha r portion adapted to close said loop, -substantially as described.

3. An eye-glass holder composed of a single piece of wire comprising a pin portion; a front bar portion; the latter bent upwardly downwardly and. back on itself to form a hook under which said pin fits; a portion extending along said bar and bent downwardly and upwardly to form a loop and finally bent to form a portion for closing said loop, substantially as described.

4. An eye-glass holder ,composed of a sin 1e piece of wire provided with a pin; a hooc under which said pin engages; a front bar I portion provided with a protecting curved part near one end; a loop to hold &

the eye-glasses extending plane containing said pin, front bar portion and curved protecting part; and the extreme end portion of said wire extending at an 'le to said loop, parallel to said front bar terminatingnear said curyed protecting' part, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signa- "ture, in presence of two witnesses.

MARY NOMA THOMPSON.

lVitnesses T.- WI'IHERSPOON, GEO. B. Prnrs.

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